Dutch Mandel
Associate Publisher and Editorial Director of Autoweek
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Dutch Mandel, associate publisher and editorial director of Autoweek,has spent an extraordinary amount of time around cars. His father was in the business of car journalism, and Dutch grew up with a succession of semiexotic cars in the garage, including a 1953 C-type Jaguar, a Lotus Cortina and a ’50s-vintage Stanguellini formula junior race car. He has written for Sports Car Graphic and Car and Driver, as well as Sport Diver, Backpacker and Ski X-C magazines. For the past 26 years, he has worked in several capacities with four of the more than 30 titles owned by Crain Communications Inc., parent company of Autoweek. Dutch worked closely in the creation and development of the Autoweek Web site, as well as the magazine’s TV show, which appeared for eight years on the Speed Channel. He provided weekly consumer-focused commentary on WJR radio in Detroit. Dutch is the automotive consultant on the Pixar movie Cars 2. Follow him on Twitter @Dutch_Mandel.
Wes Raynal
Editor
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While still in college, editor Wes Raynal joined Crain Communications in the circulation department. When he graduated in 1986, he became a reporter for Autoweek sister publication Automotive News. Except for a “miserable” year at the Detroit News and a brief stint on the launch of Chevrolet’s fifth-generation Corvette at Campbell-Ewald in 1995 and 1996, Wes has been with the company ever since. He has worked as associate editor, news editor, motorsports editor and executive editor for Autoweek until he was named editor in 2009. “I love magazines, and I love creating the best magazine we can create. That just happens to be about cars,” Wes says. “I wouldn’t trade anyone on this staff for anyone at any other magazine. We have assembled the best team possible.” Wes has traveled everywhere from Pebble Beach to Paris to Shanghai for the magazine. His dream garage would hold a ’60s Mustang convertible, a late-’60s Porsche 911, a new Corvette Z06 and a Chevrolet Tahoe. Find him on Twitter @WesRaynal.
Andrew Stoy
Digital Editor
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Digital editor Andrew Stoy is a former mechanic and dealership grunt who has spent the past 15 years writing about cars in print and online and for advertising and PR firms. He graduated from the University of Georgia with a degree in English and enjoys all kinds of car-related activities. He’s attended everything from global auto shows to local collector-car events and NASCAR, Le Mans and road-racing events. Andrew says the breadth of coverage of autoweek.com, combined with the kind of knowledge you can only get from editors with Autoweek’s access, makes autoweek.com the most well-rounded automotive site on the Web. In his spare time, Andrew enjoys car restoration and repair. He’s rebuilt engines, transmissions and carburetors and done paintwork, bodywork and more. He’s currently adding electronic fuel injection and a distributor-less ignition to a 1969 Triumph TR6. The cars he’d most like to have in his garage are a 1961 Aston Martin DB4 GT and a 1970 Plymouth Sport Fury GT.
Andrew has been married for 10 years and has two young children. Follow him on Twitter @andrewstoy.
Natalie Neff
Senior Road Test Editor
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Senior road test editor Natalie Neff, who rebuilt her first engine at age 16, has been with Autoweek for 11 years and oversees all new-car reviews and testing. Natalie has tested cars in the Arctic, on glaciers in Iceland, through the jungles of Belize, in the bush of sub-Saharan Africa, across the Alps and the Rockies and the Sierras, on various Mediterranean and Pacific islands, in China and across the sand dunes of the Arabian Peninsula. “I’ve flogged cars on more Formula One racetracks than I can count,” Natalie says, “and I’ve tested everything from the tiniest electric-powered science experiment to the fastest production car made, the 1,200-hp Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Super Sport.” Natalie has ridden shotgun with some of the most talented race-car drivers in the business but says her best ride-along was two laps around the Mid-Ohio course on the back of a Honda race bike. “That is my idea of fun,” she says. Find her on Twitter @natalieneff.
Dale Jewett
Technical Editor
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Technical editor Dale Jewett was born with 100-octane blood and grew up in the shadow of his grandfather's car dealership in Iowa. He learned the thrill of driving a manual transmission on a 1973 Jeep CJ-5, and a '60s-era Ford pickup with a three-on-the-tree. After several years writing for newspapers in Arizona and California, he landed in Detroit in 1990 as an editor and writer for industry trade journal Auotmotive News. Horsepower, technology and convertibles are his favorite things. And Corvettes.
Sherrice Gilsbach
Associate Online Editor
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As a child, Sherrice Gilsbach begged her parents to take her to the North American International Auto Show in Detroit each year. “My birthday is in early January, so I would request to go to the auto show as my birthday present,” she said. In college, Sherrice studied journalism and worked for East Lansing’s cable-access channel, delivering community news and broadcasting city meetings. Upon graduating from Michigan State University, Sherrice moved into the public-relations field and worked with primarily automotive clientele. For the past few years, she covered automotive news and wrote car reviews for MotherProof.com and Cars.com and attended several auto shows and new-model launches. Today, as associate online editor for shopautoweek.com, Sherrice is happy to combine her two favorite pastimes, writing and learning about cars. Despite being a soccer mom, Sherrice prefers small cars with responsive handling, like the Mini Cooper S, Mazdaspeed3 and the Nissan 370Z. Follow her on Twitter @SherriceG.
Angie Fisher
Associate Editor
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Angie Fisher got her start in the automotive industry as an editorial intern at Autoweek. After about a week in, she was hooked. She had a stint as a reporter for a suburban newspaper, and now she’s back and ready to dig into all things auto. Angie loves anything Audi—of course, if she had to pick it would be the R8. Realistically, though, right now she is looking at a Jeep Wrangler. She is excited to be a part of a magazine that is best in its class for providing readers with everything they need to know about auto news, reviews and racing. She graduated from Central Michigan University with a bachelor’s degree in journalism and is the recipient of a Michigan Press Association award. Angie is married and loves spending time with her dog. Follow her on Twitter @Ang_Fisher.
Rebecca Jones
Copy Editor
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Copy editor Rebecca Jones learned everything she knows about cars while handing wrenches to her dad and brothers in an oil-stained driveway. She puts this knowledge to use to coax her own high-mileage cars back on the road. Rebecca joined Autoweek in January 2011, after working for 10 years as a reporter and copy editor at several Detroit-area newspapers. When shopping for a “new” car, Rebecca is more apt to look along the roadside for a for-sale sign on an old Buick than to stop in a BMW dealership. She’s a fan of big sedans and likes taking road trips with her dog. Follow her on Twitter @rebeccarenee.
Brad Constant
Associate Technical Editor
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Associate technical editor Brad Constant has a passion for three things -- cars, racing and speed. His love of automobiles and racing began with his grandfather's 1959 Alfa Romeo Giulietta Spider. Add in the countless weekends spent at the track racing go-karts with his dad, crewing his uncle's Triumph Spitfire during SCCA competitions, standing on the tarmac while his other uncle screamed by in an F/A-18 Hornet feet above the ground or watching a team of professionals wrench on the turbine of his godfather's FormulaBoats.com hydroplane, and you get a self-proclaimed speed junky. Brad started at Autoweek in 2010 and has enjoyed every second of his time covering racing and driving cars. One of his fondest Autoweek memories is hustling a 2012 Lexus LFA, 2011 Porsche 911 GT2 RS and 2011 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 around GingerMan Raceway. He spends his spare time hanging out with his fiancée, cruising in the Alfa Romeo, playing hockey, banging on the drums, golfing or dreaming of being the next Ayrton Senna. Follow him on Twitter @jbconstant.
Bob Gritzinger
Executive Editor
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Bob Gritzinger was an auto mechanic in high school, where he enjoyed wrenching on cars more than writing about them. But the world of journalism beckoned, and Bob embarked on a nearly two-decade career in newspaper reporting in Michigan, covering everything from corruption in city hall to assisted-suicide advocate Dr. Jack Kevorkian. Bob’s twin passions for writing and cars finally came together in 2000 when he joined the Autoweek staff as senior news editor. In that role, he traveled the world’s auto-show circuit, scouring from Detroit to Beijing for breaking car news and automotive trends.
In a decade at Autoweek, Bob has evaluated upward of 2,000 new vehicles, with automotive travels taking him from ice fields north of the Arctic Circle to top-speed runs on German autobahns. An avid outdoorsman, Bob is partial to practicality in his vehicles, but he has camped out of the back of everything from a Jeep Wrangler to a Toyota Prius. Follow him on Twitter @bobgritzinger.
Roger Hart
Executive Editor
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Roger Hart was named executive editor of Autoweek in October 2009, after serving nearly 10 years as managing editor of the magazine. Early in his career, Roger worked as a photographer for the Associated Press in Detroit, a sports editor for the Observer & Eccentric newspapers in suburban Detroit, editor of the Daily Telegram in Adrian, Mich., and freelance photographer for such clients as Automobile Magazine, Car and Drive and Sports Illustrated. In 2008, he wrote a book about the Detroit Grand Prix, Postcards from Detroit: Remembering Formula One in the Motor City. While at Autoweek, Roger has traveled around the world with Buick, attended the Shanghai auto show, checked out GM’s Opel operations in Germany and driven off-road vehicles in Nevada’s Great Basin. A muscle-car fan, Roger covets the 1970 Dodge Challenger and the 1965 Pontiac GTO. Follow him on Twitter @roger_hart.
Mark Vaughn
Senior Editor (West Coast)
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Mark Vaughn grew up in a Ford family and spent many hours holding a trouble light over a straight-six fed by a single-barrel carburetor. Soon after the Fords, British sports cars entered the family, first a 1967 MGB and then a 1957 MGA. These were vehicles that alternately leaked oil and electricity, but when they actually did run, they were fun to drive. When he came of age, he switched to air-cooled Volkswagens, which ran only slightly better. This led to a lifelong appreciation of VW vans, one of which he still owns. Mark started writing as a reporter for City News Service in Los Angeles, covering the police beat in the basement press room of the old Parker Center. After college, he moved to Europe and became editor of a car magazine called Auto. Given an abundance of autonomy at Auto, he decided that the magazine should cover racing: Formula One, sports prototypes and touring cars. This was in the late 1980s, possibly the best time to be doing it. After five years of that, he interviewed with Autoweek at the Frankfurt motor show in 1989 and has been at Autoweek ever since, first in Detroit and now in Los Angeles. Find him on Twitter @MVaughnAW.
Davey G. Johnson
Senior Online Editor, West Coast
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Davey G. Johnson grew up with his attention split between American muscle and European sophistication. His boyhood bedroom walls featured the period-correct obligatory Countach poster, as well as shots of Don “the Snake” Prudhomme’s Army Arrow funny car. After a long, meandering detour into the world of rock ‘n’ roll (he counts interviewing the late Joe Strummer of the Clash as one of the most influential experiences of his life), Davey returned to the world of cars, penning stories about hot rods and musclecars. His experience in both music and automobiles led to the helm of punk rock/hot rod magazine Gearhead and eventually to a stint as the second-ever staffer at a then-obscure website called Jalopnik. Since then, he’s written for Car and Driver and Yahoo! Autos. He owns a 1970 Porsche 914 as well as a 1994 full-size Chevy Blazer and suggests you seriously consider a Cayman R. Or maybe a Nissan Murano CrossCabriolet. Perhaps a vintage Citroën SM? Berate him on Twitter at @DaveyG_AW.
Greg Migliore
News Editor
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“It’s rare that I find a car totally boring,” says news editor Greg Migliore. “It’s a car, after all. They’re intrinsically cool.” Greg has been with Autoweek for three years, first as a reporter and then in his current position as news editor. Before coming to Autoweek, he worked for the Ann Arbor Business Review and the Novi News and freelanced for the Associated Press and the Detroit News. Greg enjoys covering auto shows around the world and has traveled to Chicago, Geneva and Frankfurt for the magazine. He loves driving something powerful and luxurious, such as a new Chevrolet Camaro, and attending summer car-enthusiast events such as the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance. Greg would like a 1968 Dodge Charger or a 1964 Ferrari 250 GTO to call his own. Find him on Twitter @GregMigliore.
Jonathan Wong
Road Test Editor
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Road test editor Jon Wong has been with Autoweek since 2005 and was a subscriber for years before joining the team. A longtime car enthusiast, Jon loves watching his favorite cars progress from year to year. “With advancements in tires, suspensions, traction electronics, gearboxes and aerodynamics, it’s amazing to see what the car companies will do next to continue to push the envelope,” he says. Jon cites the Nürburgring 24-hour endurance race in Germany as the coolest event he has ever attended. As an avid motorsports fan, he also frequents many ALMS races and participates in autocross racing with his own Mazda RX-7 R2. In a perfect world, Jon says, he would have the Ferrari 458 Italia in his garage, but with his writer’s budget, he would happily settle for the Honda S2000, which he praises for its high-revving four-cylinder engine and quick steering response. Find him on Twitter @AWJonWong.
Jake Lingeman
Associate Editor
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Jake Lingeman can tear down a dual-overhead-cam four-cylinder engine and rebuild it. The associate editor and car lover has been with Autoweek since 2006, reporting on car news, filming video for autoweek.com, hosting Autoweek TV and creating podcasts. Before he came to Autoweek,Jake worked at the Detroit News. He especially enjoyed creating the rating system for shopautoweek.com. “I love giving educated opinions and arguing about cars,” Jake says. And in his opinion, the best cars out there are the Audi R8 V10, the Nissan GT-R and the Porsche 911 GT3, although he is content to cruise around in his 1963 Pontiac Star Chief. Find him on Twitter
@JakeLingeman.
Autoweek Editors
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With more than 150 years of combined automotive journalism notched in their belts, the Autoweek editors are armed and ready to deliver all kinds of information you might seek–automotive or otherwise.
Greg Kable
European Editor, Germany
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Greg Kable has contributed to Autoweek from his base in Stuttgart, Germany, for more than 16 years. As Autoweek’s eyes and ears in Europe, he provides news, views and driving impressions on everything from the smallest and most economical hatchbacks to the fastest and most flamboyant hypercars, and just about everything in between. A second-generation motoring journalist–his father, Mike, pioneered the craft in Australia–Kable began his career at Motor magazine in Sydney in 1989. He also has contributed to Automotive News Europe, Autocar, the Sydney Morning Herald and Der Welt newspaper in Germany. His taste for European cars was set at an early age, having learned to drive on an Alfa Romeo 1300 Junior. When he’s not sniffing out stories for Autoweek or at the wheel of the latest European car, he usually can be found at the Nürburgring, a place Kable calls “nirvana.”
J. P. Vettraino
Senior Editor at Large
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J. P. Vettraino was covering crime in Sacramento, Calif., when he joined Autoweek as West Coast Editor in January 1990. He hasn’t looked back. He’s been the magazine’s Features Editor, Motorsports Editor and Indy Car beat writer, and he’s driven nearly all of the new vehicles launched over the past 20 years. Currently Autoweek’s Senior Editor at Large, Vettraino is based in Detroit and contributes to other national publications. He writes about new-car introductions, racing, the auto industry and car culture. He is a graduate of the University of California, Davis, with post-graduate study at U.C. Berkeley.
Patrick Paternie
Contributing Editor
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Editor's note: Long-time Autoweek contributor Patrick Paternie, who shared his love of cars with readers for 12 years at this publication and for 25 years at other magazines and in his many books, died March 10, 2012 at age 65. We present his biography here in honor of our friend and colleague.
Patrick C. Paternie is a Southern California-based freelance journalist who travels the world covering automobiles, racing and the high-speed lifestyle that surrounds them. “Over the past two decades, I have been able to live out my automotive dreams, including working with my heroes such as Phil Hill and Mario Andretti, attending events such as Goodwood, Le Mans and the Monaco Grand Prix, plus driving exotic classic and contemporary machines on racetracks and roads around the world.” He has written seven books, and his articles and photographs have appeared in more than 125 magazines, newspapers, books by other authors and Web sites. “When I’m not ‘working,’ I enjoy vintage-racing my 1968 Porsche 911.”
Patrick C. Paternie is a Southern California-based freelance journalist who travels the world covering automobiles, racing and the high-speed lifestyle that surrounds them. “Over the past two decades, I have been able to live out my automotive dreams, including working with my heroes such as Phil Hill and Mario Andretti, attending events such as Goodwood, Le Mans and the Monaco Grand Prix, plus driving exotic classic and contemporary machines on racetracks and roads around the world.” He has written seven books, and his articles and photographs have appeared in more than 125 magazines, newspapers, books by other authors and Web sites. “When I’m not ‘working,’ I enjoy vintage-racing my 1968 Porsche 911.”
Barry Winfield
Contributing Editor
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Contributing editor Barry Winfield has been writing about vehicles longer than he cares to remember. “I started writing about motorcycles as an informal publicity manager for my friend Howard, who raced bikes in South Africa. Then I met an editor of a motorcycle magazine at one of the races and started writing for him.” That led to a job on Bike magazine in the United Kingdom, followed by a switch to cars when the motorcycle market collapsed. Barry moved to the United States in 1986 and was hired by the newly launched Automobile magazine, where he wrote a monthly technical column. Five years later, he moved across town to Car and Driver and stayed for 15 years. He now contributes to Autoweek on a regular basis, covering both cars and bikes.
Cynthia L. Orosco-Wright
Copy Editor
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Growing up in a General Motors family gave Cynthia L. Orosco-Wright an early appreciation for cars—especially the Chevrolet Camaro and Corvette—and that continues today. Cynthia has been with Autoweek for three years as a copy editor for both the magazine and for autoweek.com. She enjoys attending the Detroit auto show and visiting area Friday-night drive-in car shows. Prior to joining Autoweek, she worked for Mi Gente Magazine in Saginaw, Mich.; Hispanic Link News Service in Washington, D.C.; the News-Sentinel in Fort Wayne, Ind., and the Detroit Free Press. While she has a bit of a practical streak when it comes to cars, she loves getting on the open road in vehicles such as the Cadillac CTS-V, a Dodge Charger, and, of course, the new Camaro.
Jayne O'Donnell
Contributing Editor
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“I love cars,” says contributing editor Jayne O’Donnell, “but my real passion is safety and helping consumers wade through all the marketing hype while shopping.” Jayne is a consumer reporter for USA Today, where she covers auto safety, product safety and other issues affecting shoppers’ lives and pocketbooks. She was Washington correspondent for Autoweek in the 1990s, has written about cars for Woman’s Day and Good Housekeeping and appears often on national television. Her work in 1996 for USA Today led to the smart airbags and warning labels now found in every new car. Later articles in USA Today prompted automakers to agree to make SUVs and pickup trucks less dangerous to smaller vehicles in crashes. Jayne owns a 1999 Jaguar XJ8, loves the Audi A7 and enjoys most everything in the Hyundai lineup. She’s also co-author of the book Gen BuY: How Tweens, Teens and Twenty-somethings are Revolutionizing Retail.
Jim Henry
Contributing Editor
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Jim Henry’s career writing about the auto industry began at a daily paper, the now-defunct Nashville Banner in Tennessee, where he covered the brand-new Saturn Corp.–which now also is defunct. That's no reflection on Jim, though. He was a one-man bureau for sister publication Automotive News in New York City for many years, where he covered European imports and Wall Street. Following a stint as market-research and corporate-strategy manager for Mercedes-Benz USA, his freelance experience over the past five years has included gigs for forbes.com, businessweek.com, CBS Interactive, Automotive News, Advertising Age and Autoweek. His biggest automotive crush is the Batmobile-like Ursaab, the first Saab concept car.
Amos Kwon from Gear Patrol
Contributing Editor
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Amos Kwon is the vehicles and motorcycles editor for the Web site Gear Patrol. Gear Patrol provides its readers information about the latest in all things gear-related, from the new smartphone to Cadillac’s latest concept car. It offers a blend of finds and product reviews and an authentic perspective on trends and lifestyle decisions.
Angela Tseng of Mommy Bytes
Contributing Editor
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Angela Tseng of Mommy Bytes has been a car enthusiast since a young age. She bought her first car with a manual transmission even though she didn't know how to drive one and hasn't looked back. Angela has a degree in mechanical engineering from MIT and works as a software engineer and manager. Since starting a family with her car-enthusiast husband, she has had to compromise and drives a sport wagon (with a stick shift) and cites the dreaded minivan as the reason for not having more than two children. When she's not working, parenting or attending performance-driving schools, Angela also blogs at Mommy Bytes and BlogHer and enjoys playing the piano and violin.
Shannon Arvizu of Miss Electric
Contributing Editor
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Dr. Shannon Arvizu of Miss Electric is an electric car spokeswoman, educator, researcher and consultant. She is the author of the forthcoming book, The Plug-In Vehicle Network: How to Drive Change in the U.S. Auto Industry, as well as a green-car expert for several automotive and clean-tech Web sites and a senior researcher with the Frameworks Institute. Shannon became interested in electric cars because she wanted to understand how to use technology for the highest social and ecological good. She focuses on how technology solves social problems and how to build movements for shifting polluting industries towards clean tech. Since 2007, she has driven more than 50 concept and production plug-in and hybrid cars. She is the proud owner of a white diamond Chevy Volt.
Julian Rendell
European Editor
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Julian Rendell is Autoweek’s veteran correspondent in the United Kingdom. He specializes in the British car industry and is an expert on Jaguar, Land Rover, Aston Martin, Lotus and other marques. He’s written extensively for Autoweek’s magazine and Web site, including producing breaking news stories and in-depth test-drive reviews. He’s covered everything from the iconic Jaguar E-type to the modern XJ. Rendell also writes for Autocar, a leading British car magazine.
Steven L. Thompson
Mobility columnist
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Disabled by a car-motorcycle collision in 2004 that left his left leg paralyzed, award-winning automotive, aviation and motorcycle writer-editor Steven L. Thompson will be reporting as our mobility expert. A New York Times best-selling author, Steve’s latest book, Bodies in Motion: Evolution and Experience in Motorcycling (2008) includes insights formed by his four decades of testing vehicles of all sorts and by his membership in the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, whose members conduct important research in human-machine interface critical to improving mobility for disabled drivers.
Martha Wright
Mobility columnist
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Martha Wright is a wife and mother of three who lives in San Leandro, Calif. She works as an analyst for the Judicial Council of California, Administrative Office of the Courts in San Francisco, where she helps judges and court staff expand special projects within the state's judicial branch. Her eight-year-old daughter uses a wheelchair since sustaining a brain injury in a playground accident. As a parent with many things to do and places to go, Martha writes from her perspective about cars that meet their family’s special needs.
Ed Armbruster
Dealership Insider
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Ed Armbruster has spent much of his professional life in car dealerships, working as a technician, body shop manager and dealer operations manager. He offers his unbiased insights into a world that's mysterious even to some insiders.
Peter Greenberg
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Emmy Award-winning investigative reporter and producer Peter Greenberg is the travel editor for CBS News, appearing on CBS This Morning and CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley. Peter was named one of the most influential people in travel, along with Al Gore, Bill Marriott and Richard Branson by Travel Weekly. A New York Times best-selling author, his most recent release is The Best Places for Everything and he recently partnered with Michelin Travel to create the Like a Local guidebook series. You can hear him reporting regularly from remote locations around the world on the nationally syndicated Peter Greenberg Worldwide Radio show. Visit him online at PeterGreenberg.com.
David Arnouts
Associate Editor
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Associate editor David Arnouts joined Autoweek after graduating from the University of Michigan in Dearborn, Mich. David has worked for two American Le Mans Series race teams and spends his free time with exotic Italian sports cars.
Tara Baukus Mello
Contributor
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Tara Baukus Mello has written about cars since 1997. She specializes in providing practical advice for consumers on car buying and selling, as well as safety and technology. Tara has published more than 3,500 articles as a full-time freelance automotive writer in such publications as Autoweek, Woman's Day, Parade, Automotive News, Woman's World, The New York Times, cNet.com and Edmunds.com, among others.
As owner of She Drives, Tara's automotive experience includes work as a magazine editor, a radio news anchor, an automotive analyst and an consumer advice expert. She is also the author of 10 nonfiction chapter books for children.
Originally from Cape Cod, Mass., Tara graduated cum laude from Harvard University and lives with her family in the Los Angeles area. Follow her on Facebook or on Twitter @SheDrives.
Mark Rechtin
Automotive News
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Mark Rechtin writes for Automotive News.
Marti Benedetti
Contributing Editor
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Marti Benedetti has nearly 25 years of business-writing and editing experience. After 10 years as a newspaper reporter, she joined the freelance world as a regular contributor to the Detroit Free Press, Crain’s Detroit Business, Business Week and the Booth Newspapers. She worked in public affairs at Ford Motor Co. for more than 10 years, writing for the employee magazine, Web site and television station, planning and executing media events and writing speeches. She writes for The Henry Ford, Cobo Center and the Detroit Auto Dealers Association. She is the co-author and photo archivist of They Said It Here, the 75th anniversary book of the Detroit Economic Club. Benedetti writes about green cars for shopautoweek.com.
Eric Bloom
Contributor
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Michelle Koueiter
Associate Editor
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Associate editor and Autoweek TV host Michelle Koueiter has been training in interactive journalism for six years, in everything from radio broadcasting to Web-site production to long-form writing. She attended the prestigious Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University and has worked at Medill Reports and the Detroit Free Press. At Autoweek, Michelle reports daily news stories for the Web site, feature stories for the Autoweek Collector site and content for shopautoweek.com. Michelle says she is a truck lover, and one of her favorites is the 2011 Dodge Ram Laramie Longhorn Special Edition.
Julie Alvin
Associate Editor
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Julie Alvin joined the Autoweek staff as associate editor in 2011 after spending several years working for Condé Nast Publications, first at men’s magazine Details and then at parenting magazine Cookie. Julie’s background is in food, home, fashion and travel writing. A car novice, Julie writes and reports from the perspective of the average consumer rather than the car fanatic. She will be translating complicated car lingo into layman’s terms, hosting Autoweek TV and attending a driving school for Autoweek. Julie covets the Jeep Grand Wagoneer and the Mini Cooper S convertible, which she had the pleasure of driving up and down the Pacific Coast Highway for a scouting trip in California. She has freelanced for Foam, NY Arts, StyleLine, Manhattan and Hour magazines, among others. Follow her on Twitter @juliealvin.
Toni Avery
Contributor
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Automotive News
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Larry P. Vellequette
Automotive News
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Automotive News
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Automotive News
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Rory Carroll
Senior Editor
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Automotive News
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Automotive News
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